Former Men's Ice Hockey All-American Reid Cashman Named To ECAC Hockey Top 50 Team

Mar 02, 2011

Former
Quinnipiac All-American Reid Cashman has been named one of the top
50 players in ECAC Hockey history, as announced by the league
today. As part of its 50th Anniversary celebration, ECAC Hockey has
been releasing the 50 best players in league history since Nov. 11,
with Cashman being named in the ninth group. Cashman was previously
named to the ECAC Hockey All-Decade Team for the period from 2000
through 2009.

"We are very proud of Reid's accomplishments, both
on and off the ice," Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold said. "He
is a special person, a great captain and was a dominant player in
his four years at Quinnipiac University."Cashman, from Red Wing, Minn.,
first earned All-America honors in 2004-05 when the Bobcats were
members of Atlantic Hockey. Cashman went on to earn consecutive
ECAC Hockey First Team and All-American honors when he finished as
the league's top-scoring defenseman in 2006 and 2007, while also
ending up as the only defenseman in the Top 20 in scoring in the
nation both years. In 2007, he captained a Quinnipiac team that
played for the ECAC Hockey Championship in just its second year in
the league.

In 79 career
ECAC Hockey games, Cashman tallied 82 points, earning him a spot on
the All-Decade team. In 2007, he finished second in the nation in
scoring among defenseman with 41 points in 40 games for a 1.02 per
game average. The previous season, he scored 41 points in 39 games
for a 1.05 per game average, good for third in the nation among all
blue-liners. In both seasons in ECAC Hockey, Cashman led the league
in assists and power-play points.

The
school record-holder in career assists with 125, he also holds the
single-season defenseman records in assists with 35 in 2006-07 and
45 in 2004-05. The all-time leading scorer amongst defenseman, his
148 career points rank eighth overall.

Upon completion of his Quinnipiac career, Cashman signed with the
Toronto Maple Leafs, playing seven games that season with Toronto's
top affiliate, the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League
(AHL). Cashman enjoyed two stints with the Marlies, while also
suiting up for the AHL's Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and the
Milwaukee Admirals. He also played for the Columbia Inferno,
Wheeling Nailers and the Cincinnati Cyclones of the East Coast
Hockey League. He is currently playing for EHC Black Wings Linz of
the Austrian Erste Bank Ice Hockey League. The top 50 players
were determined by a selection committee made up of former coaches
and media members. These honorees were tallied from 145 players
(47 defensemen; 73 forwards; and 25 goaltenders).
The ninth segment of honorees includes: Quinnipiac University
defenseman Reid Cashman, a two-time all-american (2006 and 2007),
who holds the school record for career assists (125) and one of
only six Bobcats to play in 150-plus games (151); Scott Fusco,
Harvard, forward, a three-time first-team all-conference selection,
who led the Crimson in goals and scoring for three seasons; Tom
Mellor, defenseman, Boston College, named 1970 ECAC Hockey Rookie
of the Year and 1973 ECAC Hockey Player of the Year, who amassed
135 points in 81 games; Providence defenseman Randy Velischek, a
member of the 1980-89 ECACâ€ˆHockey All-Decade
Team, who helped the Friars to 1981 and 1983 NCAA Tournament
appearances; and Terry Yurkiewicz, goaltender, Clarkson, who was
helped the Golden Knights to their first-ever regular-season title
(1965) and program's first-ever tournament title in
1966.

All current
and former teams' impactful players, including those from Boston
College, Boston University, New Hampshire, Middlebury, Army, etc...
were reviewed in comprising the list of candidates for the special
team. Five players from the top 50 all-time team will be released
every two weeks throughout the season leading up the championship
in March 18-19 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The top 50
players were determined by a vote of a selection committee of 10
individuals, which include Joe Bertagna, former student-athlete at
Harvard, former hockey commissioner of the ECAC and current
commissioner of Hockey East; Ed Carpenter, former Sports
Information Director at Boston U.; Bill Cleary, former
student-athlete, head coach and director of athletics at Harvard;
John Connolly, long-time sports reporter at the Boston Herald; Dan
Fridgen, former student-athlete at Colgate and former head coach at
RPI; Mike Gilligan, former head coach at Yale (interim) and
Vermont; Lou Lamoriello, former student-athlete and head coach at
Providence and current CEO/President/General Manager of the New
Jersey Devils; Mark Morris, former student-athlete at Colgate and
former head coach at Clarkson; Tim Taylor, former student-athlete
at Harvard and former head coach at Yale; and Adam Wodon, editor of
the College Hockey News Web site.